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Why Hello There: An ASCII Reboot —

This is the first post of ASCII.TEXTFILES.COM under the new location and software. I’m now running WordPress, a very popular and very enjoyable weblogging software suite that first flirted with me years ago. Attempts to switch over to it seemed involved and tedious, considering how entrenched my hundreds of entries were under my old software. […]

Recording the Beatles —

Oh, what a treat. To make this book review and accolade more interesting, I will be peppering it with lessons I learned or re-learned from the authors in bold and italic. Lessons re-learned are even more important than lessons learned. The creators of the book Recording the Beatles stopped by the public library in Boston […]

Mr. Influence —

Evil League of Evil Application – Mr Influence from Will Keary on Vimeo. A friend of a friend was sent in my direction because he had decided he wanted to make an Evil League of Evil Application. To know what the Evil League of Evil is you probably need to know about Dr. Horrible’s Sing […]

Awesome! Unsurpassed! —

One of the side effects of the massive cleaning and sorting effort in my office is that tons of to-dos are now flying up to the surface, able to be addressed as time permits. I still don’t have a lot of time but now instead of glancing over a sea of scary paper and boxes, […]

In Which I Ask You Nice People a Question —

A quick question, because I don’t even know what the right answer is. There’s a chance for doubled content between this and the other weblog. Stuff in which I am a bitter bucket of beans will always end up here, where it is expected and tolerated, while such attitude will not make an appearance on […]

A Comic Moment —

Travel this holiday sent me between Massachusetts and New York State. In doing so, as is often the case, I end up at a diner somewhere along Interstate 84. I like diners and while they’ve done their part to cause a lot of the weight hardship of my various years (I love tuna melts), the […]

A Warning of Upheaval —

Well, it only took me about a week of using my other weblog under WordPress’ environment to wonder what the hell I’m doing still under movable type. I mean, seriously. So yeah, expect this weblog to end up under that environment, be better handled, faster, have more flexibility, and all that. The only big deal […]

The Wall —

Most people who visit me for the first time walk into my office where I do most of my work for the websites and projects and they stop dead because they are confronted with The Wall. The Wall is this collection of racks that take up a full side of my office. Where most people […]

Information Superhighway —

If you live in the Boston area and have this burning desire to hang out with me, I’m at a meet-and-greet what’s-up-dilly-o event on the weekend: Infomation Superhighway Two. Saturday November 29, 2008 at 8:00pm Berkman Squared 50 Church Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Category: Social Harvard Free Culture, ROFLCon, and Public Radio Exchange Proudly Present… […]

Wizzywig #2: Hacker —

The second in a planned four volume comic series called Wizzywig has arrived. I reviewed the first volume in the series back in January, and I gave it good marks. I see no reason, looking back, to change my opinion. The positives of the first volume remain in the second one. This is a fun […]